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Lone Star State Democrats have a history of polling well, and falling short, so we looked at whether this year might be different.  By Alexandra Samuels Business The Quest to Build the World’s Fastest Car By Tom Foster Border & Immigration Some Texas Democrats in 2024 Are Running on the Republican Immigration Policy of 2018 By Christopher Hooks Business Why Many More Delivery Drones Will Soon Fly Dallas–Fort Worth’s Skies By Jim Magill Politics & Policy Ken Paxton Is Suing Texas Counties Over Voter-Registration Efforts. What’s Legal and What’s Not? By Dan Solomon Politics & Policy Extremists Want to Make Abortion Punishable by Death—And They’re Gaining Power in Texas By Forrest Wilder Energy The Lone Star Lithium Boom By Russell Gold More News & Politics TM Classics A half century of chronicling Texas. October 2001 Hit Man Looking to have somebody murdered? You might want to call Gary Johnson, the number one hired killer in Houston. Then again, you might not—he works for the cops. By Skip Hollandsworth July 1992 River Oaks 77019 Two prominent families, one soapy feud. What could be better for a summer miniseries? By Mimi Swartz October 2012 Portrait of the Artist as a Postman The only American ever to design scarves for the exclusive French fashion house Hermès is Kermit Oliver, a 69-year-old postal worker from Waco who lives in a strange and beautiful world all his own. By Jason Sheeler September 1982 The Man Who Killed Judge Wood The end of the Chagra family’s drug empire, a few words on murderer-for-hire Charles Harrelson, and the most incriminating tapes since Watergate. By Gary Cartwright More from the Archive Arts & Entertainment Music Wade Bowen Taps Troy Aikman for the High School Football Anthem “Friday Night” Although the Cowboys great appears in Wade Bowen's new music video, Aikman does not revisit his brief career as a country singer. By Dan Solomon Art Fur Is In: Texas Farm Animals Go Glam in a New Book By Josh Alvarez Film & TV Connie Britton Is Playing a Texas Mom Again in a New Reality Winner Biopic By Michael Agresta Style & Design A Guide to the Modern Bolo Tie for the Cowboy-Curious By Meher Yeda Music The “Return” of Miranda Lambert By Natalie Weiner Books ‘Uncle Sam’ Was Hailed as a Comics Masterpiece, Then Left to Languish. It’s Been Reissued Just in Time for the Election. By Dan Solomon Style & Design Goodbye to All That Foliage By Mimi Swartz More Arts & Entertainment Being Texan Meanwhile, in Texas Meanwhile, in Texas: Some Buc-ee’s Beavers Go on a Short, Strange Trip A brief selection of recent events in our unpredictable state.  By Meher Yeda The Texanist The Texanist: The Rio Grande Valley Isn’t Actually a Valley, Is It? By David Courtney Sports How Many Texans Does It Take to Raise a 3,200-Square-Foot Flag? 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